William cooke



' UNITED STATES PATENT WILLIAM COOKE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-LINE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,921, datcd August 19,1873, application filed June 28, 1873.

To.f coll 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GooKE, ofthe city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists inthe construction and. arrangement of a clothes line holder, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. i

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which represents a perspective view of my clothes-line A represents a metal bar, of suitable dimensions, forming the body of my line-holder, provided with holes a a for the passage of screws to fasten the holder where desired. At the lower end ot the body A is formed a downward-projecting hook, B, and at the upper end an upwardprojeeting fork, O, the prongs of which are bent, as shown, rst outward and then inward, forming, as it were, five sides ot" a hexagon. E represents a buckle, forming a part of my line-holder, and arranged so that the bail is in front of the body A, while the tongue passes from the inner side outward through a vertical slot in the body. y

The line may be fastened in a number of different waysin the buckle E, around the hook B, and through the fork O.

From the peculiar form of the prongs of this fork it will be seen that another line4 may be hooked on either one of said prongs without any danger of slipping olif'. l

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The withindescribed clothes-line holder, consisting of the body A with hook B, fork C having its prongs bent outward and then inward, and the buckle E, all constructed and arranged substantiallyr as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. v

-WILLIAM COOKE.

Witnesses:

C. ALEXANDER, J. V. WHITE. 

